The U.S. presidential election was affected by the Wuhan pneumonia (a novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19) epidemic, which led to a surge in early voting (both in-person and by mail), which in turn affected the speed and accuracy of ballot issuance and raised concerns about “fraud”. For this reason, Trump and Biden have each assembled a thousand-person legal team, ready to launch a legal challenge at any time.
The Associated Press pointed out that since the 2000 U.S. presidential election results must be decided by the Supreme Court, the Republican and Democratic parties have prepared legal teams in order to have sufficient “troops” to deal with legal battles when the voting results cannot determine the winner.
This time, Sichuan and Baibai camps have called on thousands of lawyers who had dealings with the two parties during their time in power to monitor the state’s exit polls and “make sure that all the ballots that should be issued are issued, or that all the ballots that should be voided are voided.
In fact, as early as Election Day, in states such as Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Minnesota, and Nevada, about 300 election lawsuits have been filed, most of them concerning election procedures that have been altered by the epidemic, not to mention the underlying problems of massive “absentee balloting.
For example, the Federal Supreme Court recently allowed the election authorities in Pennsylvania and North Carolina to extend the deadline for receiving absentee ballots to 6 days, three days after the election, but Wisconsin still has to serve them before the election date before they can be counted.
In response to Pennsylvania’s delayed ballot collection, many conservative attorneys threatened not to rule out another challenge after the election if those ballots could affect the outcome of the election. Trump also criticized this practice during his campaign in Pennsylvania on October 31, and indicated that he may appoint a lawyer to intervene.
In addition, mailed ballots that are not sealed in a letter must also be treated as invalid, a situation that makes Ohio State University law professor and election expert Edward Foley exclaim: “I still don’t understand how you can validate a ballot and open it at the same time in a swing state like Pennsylvania.
In Nevada, Trump campaign staffers and local Republican Party officials also filed a lawsuit to prevent ballots mailed from Las Vegas from entering the counting process. Their argument is that observers were not allowed near enough to the poll workers and machines monitoring the process to identify voter signatures as suspicious.
As for Houston, Texas, where more than 100,000 people were allowed to vote “off the bus” by poll workers, Republicans are seeking a state and federal court order to stop the counting of ballots, citing violations of election rules, and a hearing will be held on February 2.
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